Upper Carboniferous
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Folded amongst the schists are Strips of Upper Carboniferous beds similar to those of the west coast.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
This list of beds might be further curtailed for all practical purposes of the geologist, and the three great divisions of the system would thus stand:— Upper Carboniferous, or Coal-measures proper.
From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.
From the Upper Carboniferous onward, however, no marine deposits are known; and, as in Siberia, plant bearing beds are met with.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
The folded series, culminating originally in Upper Carboniferous strata, was worn down, perhaps as far back as Permian times, until it possessed a fairly uniform surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Everywhere the chief folding seems to have occurred before the deposition of the highest beds of the Upper Carboniferous, which lie unconformably upon the folded older beds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
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